Book marker



Nov. 10, 1959 'K. H. GREIDER BOOK MARKER Filed Oct. 17, 1957 INVENTOR. KENDI G H. GREIDER BY a'/ d# FIG-6V "FIG-4 ATTORNEYS United States Patent O BOOK MARKER Kendig H. Greider, Medway, Ohio Application October 17, 1957, Serial No. 690,668

Z Claims. (Cl. 116-119) This invention relates to book markers.

A primary object of the invention is to provide a book marker of simple construction, which is readily clipped to a bound volume in a secure fashion. and which lends itself to application to book covers of various thicknesses. For this latter purpose the clip of the book marker is a strip of resilient material having a reverse bend and the clip tits over a portion of the book cover resiliently engaging the cover between ears of the clip extending from the bend. For marking a readers place in a book a strip of ilexible material such as a cord is provided. This cord extends from the book marker at the bend in the clip and accordingly no tension is exerted on either ear of the clip by the cord. This inhibits loss of resiliency in the clip.

An important object of the invention is to provide a plurality of marking strips or cord on one spring clip without aiecting the resiliency of the clip adversely. For this purpose a retainer element for the cords is provided on the clip at the bend thereof and the cords are attached to the retainer element.

The invention will be more fully understood by reference to the following detailed description and accompanying drawing wherein:

Figure 1 is a front elevational view, somewhat enlarged, of one embodiment of the invention;

Figure 2 is a side view, partially in section and partly broken away, illustrating the mode of use of the book marker of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a fragmentary view showing one embodiment of a cord retainer useful in conjunction with the spring clip of Figure 1 for providing a plurality of cords on the book marker;

Figure 4 is a front elevational view with portions broken away illustrating the cord retainer of Figure 3 on the spring clip of Figure 1;

Figure 5 is a view illustrating a further embodiment of a cord retainer for use in conjunction with the spring clip of Figure l; and

Figure 6 illustrates the use of the cord retainer of Figure 5 in a book marker.

Throughout the description and drawings corresponding numerals have been applied to similar parts.

Referring now to the drawings and initially particularly to Figures 1 and 2 the numeral 1 designates generally a book marker having a spring clip 3 which is adapted to engage over the cover of a book (Figure 2). The clip 3 comprises a reversely bent strip of resilient material which includes the clamping ears 5 and 7 between which the book cover 9 (Figure 2) is insertable. The material of spring 3 is suitably of metal or formed plastic; brass has been used with success.

The numeral 11 designates a reverse bend or bent portion of the book marker clip and which reverse bend connects the ears 5 and 7.

Ear 7 is somewhat longer than ear 5 and as shown in Figure 2 engages the inside of the book cover. Ear 5 is slightly bowed inwardly at 13 adjacent its lower "ice extremity; this provides for the imposition of good vpressure on the book cover (Figure 2) and the retention of spring pressure in the clip over extended periods of use and on various thicknesses of book covers. Further, the lowermost edge 15 then protrudes slightly from the plane of the book cover to provide a spacing of the book from others when the book is in a case or rack. However the clip is reversible toprovide the ear 7 on the outer side of a book cover so that the clip will b'e flat against and not mar a table or desk upon which the book may be laid down.

The reverse bend 11 is provided with an aperture 17 through which cord 19 is threaded; cord 19 interiorly of bend 11 is provided with a knot 21 which prevents slippage of the cord from the clip.

As may be clearly seen from Figure 2, the book marker in use is conveniently positioned to provide the cord, which is of somewhat greater length than the book; at any page of the book for marking the same. Substantially. no tension is placed on either clamping ear by the cord 19 since the cord contacts the book marker only at the bend 11.

In Figure 3 there is illustrated a cord retainer 22' in the form of a longitudinal band 23 having a plurality of apertures 25 and tabs 27, 29. The band 23 is preferably of a conliguration such that it ts conveniently over the bend 11 (Figure 4) and in general conformity with the contour of the bend. Tabs 27, 29 then are pressed around the book marker into clinchin'g contact with the inner surface of the marker at bend 11 to securely ix the cord retainer in position (Figure 4).

Through apertures 25, of which 5 are shown in Figures 3 and 4, there extend cords 19 which suitably are each of diterent coloration to provide for convenience in marking diierent sections of a book. The center cord 19 may also pass through aperture 17 of the reverse bend and be knotted as in Figure 1. However, the remaining cords are most suitably housed and secured between the bend 11 and retainer 22 by knots 21, as shown in Figure 4. The material of the cords forming the latter knots is under slight pressure between bend 11 and retainer 22. Such structural arrangement substantially relieves the clamping ears 5, 7 from any tension applied to the cords 19, and distortion of the ears and loss of springiness is accordingly avoided.

In Figures 5 and 6 a cord retainer of another form is indicated generally by the numeral 31. The cords 19 in this instance are grouped together and all are retained at one end of the book marker by a circular band 33 split at 35 for convenience in application of the band. Tabs 37, 39 extend from the band on either side of the split 35. These tabs (Figure 6) extend through the aperture 17 and are bent laterally to secure the retainer 31 on the spring clip 3. Again this arrangement of the cords at the bend 11 is effective in preventing application of stress to either of ears 5, 7.

The cords and the cord retainers are, in each of the embodiments shown, readily `applied to the clip; the cords` and retainers are each readily replaceable on a clip if such is desired. In each embodiment the :arrangement is such that there is no interference with the turning of the leaves of a book to which the marker is applied; further, the embodiments are each attractive, simple mechanically, and cause no damage to a book to which they are aixed.

It will be understood that this invention is susceptible to modification in order to adapt it to different usages and conditions and accordingly, it is desired to comprehend such modifications within this invention as may fall within the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A book marker comprising in combination, a generally U-shaped spring clip having a bend and spaced ears extending from the bend, said ears being adapted to engage a cover of a book therebetween, a longitudinally extending cord retaining band having a plurality of spaced apertures therethrough iittedl over the bend of the clip conforming substantially to the contour of the bend, a plurality of flexible cords for marking places of a reader in the book, each of said exible cords having `a knot housed between the outer side of the bend of the clip and the band and cach of said cords extending outwardly through an aperture of the band, and a tab integral with each extremity of said band, each said tab being clinched into' engagement with the clip at the bend to retain the band on the clip.

2. A book marker comprising in combination, a generally U-shaped spring clip having a bend and spaced ears extending from the bend, said ears being adapted to engage a cover of a book therebetween and a rst one of said ears being planar and longer than a second one of said ears, a longitudinally extending cord retaining band having a plurality of spaced apertures therethrough tted over the bead of the clip conforming substantially to the contour of the bend, a plurality of exible cords for marking places of a reader in the book, each of said flexible cords having a knot housed between the outer side of the bend of the clip and the band and each of said cords extending outwardly through an aperture of the band, a tab integral with each extremity of said band, each said tab being clinched into engagement with the clip at the bend to retain the band on the clip, and said second one of said ears being bowed inwardly intermediate its length towards the rst planar one of said ears and having an extremity protruding outwardly away from said first one of said ears.

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